My neighbour wants to climb my tree

Let's hope the OP doesn't need any of her neighbour's help anytime soon. I personally find the OP's unwillingness to help rather sad.

I’ve lived in small houses with outside loos and no bathroom but we had a back door. I forget or didn’t realise that there were still terraced houses built back to back - they are even still building them.

Glad it’s all resolved, hopefully the cat knows better now.

Where have you lived Starbird?
Not M/c I'd guess! It was full of them when I was a little lad, but a few land mines must have cleared quite a few out during the blitz.!
We always welcomed the coal-man through the front door, humping a big sack on his back on his way to dump it in the bath.
There was no back way for his lorry, but I don't recall any dramas about spoiling any wallpaper in the passage; I think we were so grateful to let him in.

hijacking the thread about cats and ladders
Willa45; what do you do when it's a grizzlie up your tree? Get a stronger ladder or run like hell?
Btw. did you finally get the B,C. advice about Grizzlies and little bells.?
Domestic cats used to wear little bells around their neck to give the birds warning of their approach, but perhaps they've been banned on grounds of noise pollution!

longer than the majority of others
You can blame me for that Gabriella!
Being compassionate, I get so carried away talking about "creatures great and small" because they appreciate TLC and don't usually complain.!

I wouldn't be too concerned about letting in neighbours that I didn't know, but not too sure of a ladder! I am in a new build bungalow, with all white interior and new flooring throughout. Because it was pristine, I find that I am being extra careful to keep it looking good for as long as possible. This has made me more observant of how easy it is for people to scrape and chip walls and woodwork as they pass by! My DGC's know to be as careful as possible, within reason. It's no fun being landed with bills for gouges out of walls etc or repainting of surfaces. I recently had a carrier come to uplift a tall, narrow chest of drawers (damaged on receipt!). I removed the drawers and moved them and the frame near to the front door, then covered them in the bubble wrap they came in. I held my extra wide front door open back to the wall as the man carried the item out, but he still managed to knock a piece off the surface of my new door. It cost his company over £100 pounds to fix. With care, it would never have happened.

I'm sorry but I would be your neighbours!! Cats can climb up easily enough but not always down and if listening to a distressed animal wasn't bothering me then I would be worried, some people really do baffle me!?
Im sure your neighbours won't rampage through the house with the ladder bashing all your paint work for goodness sakes, whatever happened to just doing the right thing without the need for a debate and a risk assessment??
The world has gone ever so slightly mad in my opinion ?

I really hope you let your neighbor rescue the cat! Sounds horrible for the poor fur baby! Please don’t continue to be unreasonable. If anything help out for me...

It's down Lilyflower

I did watch a one year old cat shoot up a large conifer the other week after a squirrel, realise it wasn't a good idea and come down slowly and carefully.

Cats can climb up easily but not down. The poor animal needs to be rescued as quickly as possible.

Or indeed gabriellaG the obsession with daughters in law and/or neighbours

I’d say no because if they fell you’d probably be liable!

I've noted with interest, that threads which concern animals are, in the main, longer than the majority of others.
I can't understand the love affair with pets.

His 15 minutes of fame on GN Maggiemaybe

My cat got himself stuck up on our roof when he was a kitten. Our roof is on two different levels and he'd climbed to the highest point and complained loudly that he couldn't get down.
I went to the back of the house where the lower roof is and called him and eventually he realised that he should go back down that way.
Pretty sure the cat will find it's own way back down, when it's gone quiet outside. All those people fussing him is likely to make him more stressed

The cat’s down. Long since. Enjoyed its spot of mischief making, and has presumably gone back to ruling over its people back at home.

Just a thought. If the ladder was left against the tree the cat could probably make it's way down that way. As long as all the humans went away and left it in peace.

Excellent Bluegal....You need to start a thread to collect votes for implementing a 'like' button! (otherwise we could all end up hijacking the thread about cats and ladders.

Jalima, it was a young cat and it looked healthy, so I'm guessing he had a home somewhere. There were several houses, less than a kilometer away, on the other side of those woods.

lol contraryMary..... Another reason Gransnet should have the option of 'liking' and responding to individual posts. Take note Gransnet Laura please......

Sorry I can’t read the title of this thread without thinking that it might be a Euphemism, it obviously isn’t.

It’s just me ?

As you were everybody.....

I wonder where the cat went willa They can be very fickle!

Sorry...I meant to say that ladder on yard side couldn't reach

Our hallway doesn't go straight through the house either and I can't see a long ladder being taken through without bashing the paintwork!

This entire thread reminds me of a cat story.

Years ago, when we lived in our old house, a 'lost' cat had been stuck in a tree and meowing woefully for two days! The very tall tree stood at the foot of a steep embankment, on the other side of our neighbor's back fence. They could place the ladder on the yard side because it didn't reach...anything longer wasn't safe. On the other side of the yard, the terrain was too steep and rocky so there was no place to set a ladder safely).

Neighbor's sixteen year old son had an idea. He attached a small cardboard box to the (pool) skimmer net at the end of a long extension pole (don't know how he attached it exactly). The idea was to climb over the fence and use the pole to reach the cat and bring it down safely inside the box.

After repeated tries he wasn't getting close enough for the cat to get in. The pole was unwieldy and hard to control. After numerous attempts, cat had the idea but the pole kept moving. Then, another close encounter and the cat took a long awaited leap of faith.

Alas, the pole moved yet again and the poor animal landed over one side of the box. Box became detached on that end. With box now hanging off and front paws clinging on for dear life, the hapless cat let go as soon as he could land safely. No sooner on the ground, he took off into the woods, never to be seen again.